In July 2016, I had the privilege of participating as a student in the African School of Fundamental Physics and Applications (ASP) held in Kigali, Rwanda. It was there that I had a lot...

CERN restaurant #1, November 2009. I sat down with Professors Rauno Julin (University of Jyväskylä) and Peter Butler (University of Liverpool, UK) to discuss about a research idea employing post-accelerated beams at ISOLDE, CERN....

Securing sufficient and environmentally sustainable electricity production is one of the main sustainable development challenges for our future. European’s electricity production relies on multiple sources including nuclear power. In particular, four nuclear reactors situated...

Nowadays, when people talk or write about quantum technologies, they mean a wide range of devices that function, in their essence, by exploiting quantum effects. Indeed, the progress made in this field has been...

Basic physics research is global in nature. It establishes laws that are valid everywhere on Earth, and apparently in the whole Universe. The research is mostly not driven by short term commercial or military...

The CMS experiment is one of the four large experiments at the LHC. Since the beginning of data-taking in 2010, the CMS Collaboration has published more than 1100 scientific papers on a highly diverse...

Elementary particle physics is about understanding the smallest constituents of matter and their interactions. To do so larger and larger particle colliders are being built to probe the structure of matter at smaller and...

In July 2021, the open data group of the CMS experiment conducted the second CMS open data workshop aimed at physicists interested in research use of these unique public data. In the spirit of...

How far can we keep splitting them? Would there be a moment in history that we find the “Atomos” which is truly “indivisible”? What would it mean? Would it be the instant that we...

Biggest black hole merger so far Great excitement has been generated by the recent publication by the LIGO/Virgo collaboration (LVC) of a gravitational wave burst interpreted as a merger of black holes with masses...

The excellent infrastructure of HIP Detector Laboratory serves well for introducing particle physics and its instrumentation for children and youth. Every year, we provide “road-shows” in public events organized by the University, such as...

We are surrounded by them, composed of them, constantly interacting with them. However with their complex structure and behaviour, protons are still covering a large fraction of the uncharted territory of modern particle physics....

Discovery of the Higgs particles in 2012 became possible because of the tremendous international collaborative effort of a large group of high-energy particle and accelerator physicists and engineers, who enabled the construction of the...

Greetings from inside the closed borders of the Uusimaa region in southern Finland! We are living in exceptional times all around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic. The travel restrictions between and within...

The European project CompactLight (XLS) (http://www.compactlight.eu) is about to enter its third and last year of funding. We intend to design a hard X-ray Free-Electron-Laser (FEL) facility beyond today’s state of the art, using...